Platform & DevOps·Infrastructure described in a file
a scheduled job boots a base machine, applies the configuration, snapshots it and publishes a new version every week.
Image baking
Also calledbaking, image build pipeline
The pipeline that produces golden images: start from a base, run configuration management once, test it, snapshot it, promote it. It is where configuration management survives in an immutable world — run once at build time instead of forever at run time. The cadence is the whole point, since the security value of a golden image comes from being rebuilt, not from being golden.